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It sounds like a sci-fi scenario: You're rushed to the hospital with a failing organ—a liver, let's say, or maybe even a heart. The only solution is a transplant, but instead of finding yourself on a waiting list hoping a donation comes through in time, you're whisked into the operating room to be prepped. While doctors scrub up, a machine whirring nearby assembles your new organ.

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It's also drawn more attention lately, particularly since late last year, after the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a plan to temporarily place kratom on the list of Schedule 1 drugs, including heroin, LSD, marijuana, and MDMA—those defined as unsafe, having no accepted medical use in the United States, and with a high potential of abuse. Previously, kratom had largely been off the regulatory radar, sold as a dietary supplement and often shipped in packages labeled "not for human consumption." As a Schedule 1 drug, kratom would be outlawed. And because the DEA was invoking its emergency scheduling powers, the public had no right to comment.

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When British writer and journalist Johann Hari set out to understand the modern era of drug prohibition, which began in 1914 in the United States and has now gone on for over a century, he quickly rea...